hello there, and welcome to sportsday. they came so close — but ultimately — mistakes cost arsenal at the emirates today against the premier league leaders manchester city. the gunners gave away a penalty, and had a man sent off in the early match — as city scored a stoppage time winner, to pull further clear at the top. patrick geary reports. early kick—off, new year's day — tired arsenal and manchester city fans must hope their luck improves in 2022. referees, of course, can't afford to be bleary eyed, for soon, stuart attwell had a decision to make. no arsenal penalty, he said. and on reflection, var confirmed. not without question. arsenal didn't dwell on that, though. no time to, no need to. bukayo saka extended the new year's celebrations. only the manager missed out — he's in covid isolation. but in the second half came the hitch. a handful of bernardo silva's shirt, enough for a manchester city penalty and thanks to riyad mahrez, an equaliser, too. now the game hurtled

into a chaotic fast forward. a mistake, somehow city's nathan ake saved a goal, somehow arsenal's gabriel martinelli missed one. and just seconds later, the gunners�* other gabriel, already booked, got himself sent off. arsenal's party was now a lock—out. could they stop city? stoppage time, the league leaders advanced and rodri won it. for those who came from manchester, worth waking up for. patrick gearey, bbc news. to come here and win is a massive, massive achievement for us so i have a lot of respect. when i was in barcelona and bayern munich i played a thousand million times against arsenal and always here, with the best barcelona ever, we struggled and it was always difficult and now they have the momentum but there will not be a momentum, they are back to what arsenal was and today we were tired. everybody talks about is being a young team

which we are, and it shows, we don't fear anybody. we might get it wrong sometimes against the bigger teams, but today, ultimately we have lost but it's a tough one to swallow rather than getting beaten 4—0. elsewhere tottenham grabbed a stoppage time winner to beat struggling watford. spurs had most of the ball but couldn't break down a resolute watford side, until davinson sanchez headed in a free kick in time added on. they're now two points behind fourth placed arsenal with two games in hand. watford have now lost their last six league games. never i thought we can't concede a goal with a header, no, never i thought we can't concede a goalwith a header, no, because never i thought we can't concede a goal with a header, no, because i told the players, 0k, we will close all the space they had to make a cross and it was just the last free kick. what a pity, but that is football and we have to continue to fight. we are alive and we will survive. west ham jumped back above spurs in the evening kick off,

whethering a tense ending to beat crystal palace 3—2. michail antonio opened the scoring after 22 minutes, latching onto said benrahma's wicked cross. just three minutes later, the hammers were two—nil up — manuel lanzini lashing the ball past vincente guaita. when lanzini added another from the spot after a length var delay — we thought the game was over as a contest. however, odsonne eduoard added what seemed to be a late consolation but michael olise's free kick in the 90th minute set up a nervous finale for the visitors. west ham hung on. the defeat leaves crystal palace in 11th. so let's take a look at how the table stands. man city, way out in front — 11 points ahead of second placed chelsea now, who play tomorrow, albiet having played a game more. arsenal stay 4th despite the loss, west ham and tottenham are close behind. a couple of other football lines for you this evening. newcastle united have made a bid to sign england right—back kieran trippier from atletico madrid. trippier, who was part of the england side that reached the final of euro 2020

last summer, helped atletico win la liga last season. newcastle are one off the bottom of the premier league everton have signed the ukraine defender vitaliy mykolenko from dynamo kiev. hejoins on a four—year deal, for a fee believed to be up to £17 million. he's played 21 times for his country, including their run to the quarter—finals of last year's european championship. mykolenko, who's 22, said he'd always dreamed of playing in the premier league. he's rafael benitez�*s sixth signing for everton, who are 15th in the table. liverpool play chelsea tomorrow, but their managerjurgen klopp won't be with them. he's returned a suspected positive test for covid—i9 and will miss the game. yesterday klopp said three players had tested positive. a liverpool statement says there has been no further cases among the playing squad but three backroom staff have also returned suspected positive tests. assistant pep lijnders will take charge for the visit to stamford bridge. well, that match tomorrow will see a little bit of history made

as it'll be the first in england to have legal standing areas since a ban was introduced in 1994, following the taylor report into the hillsbrough disaster. there's been a long campaign to allow "safe standing" to return — and the chelsea boss hopes it will give his side a lift. hopefully, honestly, it will give us the extra boost and to our supporters because we absolutely need them on their best level in this moment and right at the very first game in the new year against liverpool. away from football, let's take a quick look at more of the day's sport. after australia batsman travis head was ruled out of the fourth ashes test after testing positive for covid, the rest of the squad have all returned negative tests. the next match in sydney starts on tuesday night. fourth seed james wade enjoyed a white wash victory over mervyn king to reach the semi—finals of the pdc world darts championship at london's alexandra palace. he'll face the winner of tonight's quarter final between defending champion gerwyn price and michael smith. twice former champion gary anderson is also

through after beating luke humphries by five sets to two. he'll face second seed peter wright or callan rydz in the semi finals. l'homme presse�* won the big race of the day , the novices' chase at cheltenham. trained by venetia williams, and ridden by charlie deutsch, the 7—4 favourite came home well ahead of the glancing queen. fantastikas was third. two games in rugby union's english premiership today. earlier, sale sharks went above wasps after completing a bonus point victory over them.sale had their previous two matches called off but scored four tries to see off wasps including this one from marland yarde. it finished 26—18 and sale are up to ninth in the table exeter are up to 5th after beating bristol by 19 points to 13. they ran in three tries to just the one for bristol , the last from stuart hogg. bristol picked up a losing bonus point. in the united rugby championship, scarlets edged out 0spreys in a thrilling derby. despite the absence of fans in wales there were seven tries. johnny mcnicholl secured the 22—19 win for the hosts with his second try with just two minutes left.

in the day's only other match connacht beat munster. emma raducanu was among the sports stars who received a new year's honour — she's now an mbe, with tom daley becoming an 0be — but the greatest honour went to british cycling's golden couple, who are now sirjason and dame laura kenny. with the highlights from a long list, here's our sports correspondent andy swiss. after a glittering 2021, britain's sports stars are once again taking the honours, led by the ultimate golden couple. jason kenny takes the title! at the tokyo games, jason kenny powered to a record seventh 0lympic title while laura kenny raced to her fifth. now the husband and wife receive a knighthood and damehood to cap an extraordinary year. 78 0lympians and paralympians have been honoured including tom daley. oh, yes, it's brilliant! he receives an 0be for his dramatic diving gold but also for services to lgbtq+ rights.

being an 0be it feels like a responsibility to make the whole commonwealth a better place for lgbt people, for women, for people of colour, to make it a more inclusive and accepting environment where everybody can be anything they want, no matter where they come from. there is also an 0be for another tokyo hero. adam peaty is the double olympic champion. after winning such an emphatic gold, adam said this was more of a shock. an incredible surprise. it went to my mum's address and she rang me, like, "am i meant to know this?" so i opened it and itjust makes you feel an immense pride. there is an 0be for hannah mills who became the 0lympics' most successful female sailor while there are mbes in bmx for gold medallist charlotte worthington and bethany shriever and also one for lauren price, the wales football international turned 0lympic boxing champion.

i came home from camp and my nana said there was a letter for me. i didn't open it for a couple of days and didn't think anything of it. it was an mbe from the queen. does not get much better than that, does it? britain's successful paralympians are also recognised including a cbe for cyclistjody cundy, an 0be for kadeena cox — who helped to launch the queen's baton relay for this year's commonwealth games — and an mbe for swimmer maisie summers—newton, a double paralympic champion at just 19. without my mum and my grandad being a taxi service for me when i was a bit younger, coaches getting me to the games and then my friends around me, that support bubble that i have, without their support i would not have been here today. so i suppose it is for everyone, really, notjust me. in football, there are an mbe for emma hayes and former sunderland

captain gary bennett received an mbe for his work for the charity show racism the red card. yet another honour for the brightest new star of tennis. an mbe for the us open champion emma raducanu after what, for her, and for british sport, has been an unforgettable year. andy swiss, bbc news. that's all from sportsday. you can get all of the latest football scores on the bbc sport website with big wins for manchester city and west ham. find website with big wins for manchester city and west ham.— website with big wins for manchester city and west ham. and tottenham as well. hello there. the warmest new year's eve on record has been followed provisionally by the warmest new year's day on record with temperatures in the

capital hitting above 16 celsius. all because we've had a feed of southerly winds bringing some very, very warm air in our direction. those southerly winds are up and around this area of low pressure which has brought some very windy weather today across the northwest of the uk. the wind direction shifts subtly as we get into tomorrow. we lose the southerly winds and pick up the westerly winds. that will start to cool things off a little. a slightly cooler night tonight than last night was. we will see clear spells but some hefty downpours of rain also pushing in from the west. the winds easing a little across those northwestern parts but it will stay quite blustery and temperatures between six and 12 degrees. still very, very mild just not quite as mild as it has been. into sunday this lump of wet weather will clear away then we will see some sunshine and then more rain swing across wales, the southwest of england towards the midlands, parts of northwest england. also showers into northern ireland and scotland with some

sunny spells in between. top temperatures, yes, down a little bit on where they have been today, nine to 13 degrees. that is a process that will continue. as we go through sunday night you can see further showers potentially longer showers at time some clear spells and staying quite blustery. low pressure still firmly in charge of our weather for monday. a couple of frontal system to talk about, this one down towards the south threatens to bring some outbreaks of rain and potentially some quite strong winds towards the channel islands, may be england as well. this frontal system will bring southwards northern island into northern england and behind us we start to see a more significant change in the feel of the weather. just five or six degrees in northern scotland on monday afternoon. 11 or 12 further south. as we move out of monday into tuesday, we all get into this northerly wind and some much, much colder air. low pressure still close by and it is likely that that will feed some wintry showers

into northern parts especially on quite a brisk wind. the forecast for the coming week is a significantly colder one, although temperatures are only going back to where they should be for this of year.

this is bbc news. these are the latest headlines in the uk as england reports another record number of daily coronavirus cases — health officials warn the days ahead will be crucial as hospitalisations continue to rise. the government needs to make a difficult decision if it's going to introduce those restrictions, but if the number of hospitalisations keep going up at the rate they are than you could see why wit they would need to change their mind. new year honours for leading figures in the battle against covid. professors chris whitty and jonathan van tam are knighted. drjenny harries and drjune raine are both made dames. darling, you don't need that. i am your mirror. darling, you don't need that. i am your mirror-—

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